The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-10-08
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.


He was very i'll when he left New Orleans,
and had no hope of returning. He was
sixty.two years old, and became Arch
bishop in 1891.
While returning from Sunday school
concert at Calvary church, Edgefield
County, S. c., few nights ago, viii Blu.
ford was shot and killed by Paul Griffin.
Griffin declaI es that the killing was acct
dental; that he shot at Eldrsd Oliphaut,
with whom he had quarreled about escort
ing girl from the church, and that the
pistol ball missed Olphant and struck
Buford.
Edmund Montgomery died on Nick
Jordan's place, near the county line Of
Schley, Ga, few days ago, aged one
hundred and two years. He was an
African chief of the Askari tribe, and was
taken to Virginia from Africa in 1907,
when he was stalwart young man. He
had large family in Virginia, and when
he died he left his third wife and twenty
five children in Georgia. His grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren are un.
known and unnumbered. He had re-
markable good eyesght and health, and
never took a dose of medicine in his life
He had teeth like ivory and every one was
in his head at the time of death.
julie j. Sigman, q saloon-keeper, and L.
J. Wilkerson, both powerful men, assaulted
A. w. Reynolds, editor of the Holly
Springs Miss Daily Sun, few days ago,
/ and beat him numerically over the head
and body with a club and loaded whip.
| Preston FAINT, a son of the mayor, stood
in the door of the office and attempted to
prevent bystanders from stopping the
row.
There is an organization Of the labor
vote in Virginia sufficiently strong to
count as one of the uncertainties Of the
campaign.
The salary of Judge in the mountain
districts of Kentucky is $500 year, Of q
county attorney $500, of u clerk $3.50, and a
sheriff $500.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ruprccht died in Ovens
boro, KY, recently at the age Of ninety.
one years. She was born in Pegintz, Ba-
varia, in 1896, and has been resident of
Greensboro for thirty years.
Mr.. Israel johnson, living ON the east
side of the Oconee, near Dublin, Ga, on
one day recently extricated and killed
thirty-four large moccasins from a hole
in his mill dam.
The Democratic convention of the Sixth
district of Louisiana nominated Colonel S.
NJ. Robertson, of Baton Rouge, for Con
gress, to succeed his father, the late
Colonel L. Robertson.
c. F. Mavis has filed a suit in the
District Court at Palestine, Tenn.
against the Missouri Pacific Railway
Company for $500 damages claimed fol-
injuries to his person inflicted by the cars
at a crossing on September 10.
Mrs. L. A. Baarcke, in lighting gasoline
stove at her residence in Mobile, Ala
caused flare up of flames, the stove hav
ing been allowed to leak over night. The
lady's clothes caught fire, and she was
terribly burned from the neck to the heels
1t is doubtful if she RECEIVERS.
At the Hail gold mine in Georgia, San
Ewing recently had 500 stolen from hin
in singular manner. He was in the
habit Of depositing his money in holloN
stump in the woods for safe keeping. HI
went to the stump to make another de
post, when lie discovered that some ont
had made draft on his bank and ex
hausted his surplus.
In the Georgia Senate, recently a substi
tute for famous Glenn bill against mixing
negroes and whites in the public schools
was passed. The House has in turn re-
jected the substitute.
The construction of the Kansas City
Memphis 81 Birmingham railroad bridge
across the Tombigbee River at Aberdeen
Miss, is progressing favorably, though
several drawbacks have been encountered
and the contractors are employing every
means for facilitating the works, labor
ing day and night when vantage grounC
can be obtained by extra time.
The j. B. Wathen & Bro. Company
distllers at Louisville, KY, has made al
assignment. The liabilities are placed a
$4,000. The assets, including the plant
which is one of the most costly of the kinC
in the State, are 1926, 900. The general de
preston in trade and a destructive fir
which neceSsitated the construction o
new warehouses by the firm in 1886 ar
given as the causes of the failure.
A white fisherman named John Davi
was arrested at Chattanooga, Tenn, few
davs ago, for the murder of his wife, ant
was committed to jail without bail. Mrs
Davis died recently very suddenly. Davi
hearty supper and was dead in an hou
and thirty minutes. Supicious circum
stances aroused the officials, and the re
mains were disinterred, and the fact wa
revealed that the skull had been fraC
tured by a blow.
A fatal alteration is reported from Hal
County, Ga, in which the exciting caus
; was the ownership of two puppies. Th
dispute was between w. F. Wilder an
Charles Maddox, which terminated b.
Maddox chasing Wilder with an axe
Maddox's wife swore out warrants agains
Wilder and his sister. Wilder resisted al
rest, chopping right and left with his axe
striking j. H. Durham with his axe cuttin
him through the shoulder six inches deer
Durham then shot Maddox in the hip, til
bullet lodging near the Kidneys infllctin
fatal wound.
, The strike in the wooden mills at Louis
/ vile, Ky, which was inaugurate
two months ago, has proven failure. TIL
, weavers demanded an increase of wage
and were supported in this action by til
Knights of Labor. The mill owners took
firm stand, refusing to take back any {